dextral
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An example of a dextral, right-lateral strike-slip fault is the San Andreas Fault, which denotes a transform boundary between the North American and Pacific plates.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
If the opposing block moves right, it is dextral motion.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Given that handedness is apparent early in life and the vast majority of people are right-handed, we are almost certainly dextral by nature.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 24, 2013
Maslin stated that the anal tube is median in the specimens that he examined; we have not studied Maslin's specimens, but all tadpoles of Smilisca that we have examined have a dextral anal tube.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
In a dextral Gastropod the shell is coiled in a right-handed spiral from apex to mouth, and the spiral also projects to the right of the median plane of the animal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
